LIU INSTITUTE—John T. McGreevy: "From Nation to Empire in a Global Church—American Jesuits in the Philippines"

LIU INSTITUTE—John T. McGreevy: "From Nation to Empire in a Global Church—American Jesuits in the Philippines"

Time: Tue Sep 27, 2016, 4:00PM -
5:00PM

Location: McKenna Hall 210-214

In the first decades of the twentieth century, dozens of American Jesuits moved to Manila prepared to devote their lives to teaching and missionary work in the Philippines. Their saga—including conflicts and collaboration with Spanish Jesuits, colonial authorities, and Filipino nationalists—sharpens our understanding of global Catholicism in the twentieth century.